Maxine Swann
Forfatter af Flower Children
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Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Værker af Maxine Swann
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- Fødselsdato
- 1969-01-01
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Uddannelse
- Columbia College (1994)
Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award (2008)
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- Værker
- 6
- Also by
- 3
- Medlemmer
- 337
- Popularitet
- #70,620
- Vurdering
- 3.3
- Anmeldelser
- 33
- ISBN
- 13
- Sprog
- 3
- Udvalgt
- 2
The book follows the children through adolescence - each chapter lights on an event or a significant moment. Swann has an elegant spare style that works beautifully in the first and concluding chapters that focus on the children and the landscape surrounding their home, but as she expands her vision to include other family members in the story, she is less sucessful at capturing that sense of the significant moment or important transition. Still, her failures are noble ones. I really admired the way she captured the way images of our younger selves erupt through the gaps of our memories like mountains in a mist.
What I liked best is there is no sense of passing judgement on any character - a lesser sensibility would have made a 'look how my hippie parents neglected me and fucked me up' kind of book. The character of the father, esp, who really is a mess and declines as the story progresses, is drawn humourously and sympathetically.
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